“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses
“I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.”
— Wilkie Collins, book The Woman in White
Source: The Woman in White
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